As a home décor project that you will treasure, your Everyday Heirloom Café Curtain and Valance combines beauty, tradition, and function. This pattern introduces knitters to the “world of variety in lace patterns,” presented by Barbara G. Walker in A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Scalloped lace, faggoting, eyelets, and lacey cast on and bind off edges complement one another with everyday simplicity. The openwork filters natural light, and a neutral cotton yarn balances color, texture, and drape. Knitting with fingering weight cotton yarn on US 6 needles brings out the stitch definition, making the lace visible from inside and out. This facilitates accuracy without compromising the elegance of lace. As Walker wisely states, “the one great virtue of lace is that the finished result nearly always looks more complicated than it really is.”